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#thankful4home: Raising Awareness Around Homelessness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This fall and winter I’m working with a group of organizations in Chicago to raise awareness around homelessness, alongside screenings of the @Home documentary that features portraits of this issue through the eyes of activist Mark Horvath. The Tweetsgiving campaigns organized by Epic Change specifically inspired us.

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How to Raise Funds for a New Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

In fundraising terms, this means you can break the mammoth task of raising money for your operating budget into small steps that feel less intimidating. But raising money once is one thing. Raising money again and again was much harder. Myth #5: Crowdfunding seems like an easy way to raise money! Then, draft a plan.

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82 Fundraising and Social Media Stats for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For every 1,000 fundraising messages delivered via email, nonprofits raise $45 USD ( M+R Benchmarks Report ). For every 1,000 fundraising messages delivered, nonprofits raise $45 USD. For every share on social media, a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign raises an average of $13USD ( CrowdRise ). Email Fundraising. Click to Tweet.

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Follow the lead of organizations like the Austin Public Library who have a sign-up form for those interested in participating. Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?… See what your board or staff members, donors and volunteers are up to on social media. Do any of them fit the bill?

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Student rideshare service HopSkipDrive raises $25M to expand and invest in electrification

TechCrunch

To help fund that growth and expand into 30 new markets over the next year and a half, HopSkipRide raised $25 million in a Series C. “We Rideshare startup HopSkipDrive raises $22M to focus on school transportation. HopSkipDrive is among a small handful of emerging startups dedicated to modernizing the public school bus system.

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It Takes a Village: Using Peer-to-Peer to End Homelessness

Qgiv

People often ask, “What’s the best way to end homelessness?” However, peer-to-peer fundraising is a great way to raise money for human services organizations and, more importantly, it’s a grassroots way to build awareness of the issues facing the unhoused community. They raised over $220,000. The best part?

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

metropolitan area, including SendGrid , Ping Identity , Rally Software (which went public on NASDAQ this year; RALY ), Sympoz , Datalogix , Newsgator , TrackVia , Convercent , Printfection , rentbits , and hundreds more. In 2012, Denver startups raised more than $280M, with 33 startups raising $1M or more.

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